xii, 307 p. : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Machine generated contents note: PART I: EMPIRE AND NATIONS -- The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, "National" Identity, and -- Theories of Empire, 23 -- RONALD GRIGOR SUNY -- An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of -- Imperialism, 67 -- TERRY MARTIN -- PART II: THE REVOLUTIONARY CONJUNCTURE -- Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905-1925, 93 -- JOSHUA SANBORN -- To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and -- Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia, iii -- PETER HOLQUIST -- Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of -- Jadidism, 1917-1920, 145 -- ADEEB KHALID -- PART III: FORGING "NATIONS" -- Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of -- Bashkortostan, 1919-1920, 165 -- DANIEL E. SCHAFER -- Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity, 19I -- DOUGLAS NORTHROP -- PART IV: STALINISM AND THE EMPIRE OF NATIONS -- The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and -- Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan, 223 -- MATT PAYNE -- Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the -- Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-1953, 253 -- PETER A. BLITSTEIN -- " It Is Imperative to Advance Russian Nationalism as the -- First Priority": Debates within the Stalinist Ideological -- Establishment, 1941-1945, 275 -- DAVID BRANDENBERGER -- Index, 301

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